Monographs

New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts
(Garland Publishing, New York 2001)
My dissertation--all about our warrant for trading on coreference...Kent Bach's review of it for the Notre Dame Philosophical Review.

Papers

...about Self-Knowledge:

"Elusive reasons: a problem for first-person authority"
An examination of recent social psychology's bearing on "authorship" accounts of authority. (Philosophical Psychology vol.16, no.4, 2003) (pdf ingenta)

"Reason and the past: the role of rationality in diachronic self-knowledge"
Inference as the source of self-knowledge of one's past thoughts and attitudes. (Synthese vol.145, no.3, 467-495, 2005) (pdf springerlink)

"Knowing what one wants"
Inference as the source of self-knowledge of desire. (Forthcoming in Philosophy&Phenomenological Research)

"Self-knowledge of belief: seeking causes"
On the liberating effects of self-knowledge of belief. (Forthcoming in American Imago)

...about Confusion:

"Confused thought and modes of presentation"
Defending neo-fregeanism against Ruth Millikan's challenges (The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 55, no.218, 21-37, 2005.) (pdf blackwell synergy)

"A notional worlds approach to confusion"
How to be an optimist when interpreting the confused subject (Mind&Language, forthcoming, vol.22 no.2 April 2007 150-172.)

...about Knowledge & Knowledge Attribution:

"Living without closure"
How we might get along even if closure principles do not govern our epistemic lives. (Grazer Philosophische Studien, 69: 93-117, 2005) (pdf ingenta)

"Enough is enough: pretense and invariance in the semantics of 'knows that'"
(Philosophical Perspectives, v. 19 Epistemology ed. John Hawthorne, 2005) (pdf blackwell synergy)

...about Memory:

"Memory, anaphora and content preservation"
Anaphoric relations among thoughts underwrite the preservation of content when making inferences. (Philosophical Studies vol.109: 97-119, 2002) (pdf ingenta)

"Memory"
Invited chapter in The Philosophy of Mind, Oxford Handbook Series (forthcoming)

 

...about various matters

"Moore's paradox"
(With John Perry) A new take on what makes Moorean assertion Unsatz.
This (Moore'sParadox.pdf) is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form will be in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2008); The Australasian Journal of Philosophy is available online at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/

Work in Progress

"The rationality of Moorean belief"
the surprising truth...

"Knowing what one believes"
harder than you think...

 

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